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Synopsis

In an incredible twist of fate, a Scottish doctor (McAvoy) on a Ugandan medical mission becomes irreversibly entangled with one of the world's most barbaric figures: Idi Amin (Whitaker). Impressed by Dr. Garrigan's brazen attitude in a moment of crisis, the newly self-appointed Ugandan President Amin hand picks him as his personal physician and closest confidante. Though Garrigan is at first flattered and fascinated by his new position, he soon awakens to Amin's savagery - and his own complicity in it. Horror and betrayal ensue as Garrigan tries to right his wrongs and escape Uganda alive.

Film Information

• Genre: Drama / Foreign
• Director: Kevin Macdonald
• Written By: Jeremy Brock, Giles Foden (novel), Peter Morgan, Joe Penhall
• Starring: Forest Whitaker, James McAvoy, Kerry Washington, Simon McBurney, Gillian Anderson, David Oyelowo, and Adam Kotz
• Running Time: 121 minutes, approx.
• MPAA Rating: R for some strong violence and gruesome images, sexual content and language
• Language: English
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Reviews

"Of course no Western director can make a movie about Africa without being accused of colonialism himself, and some critics have faulted The Last King of Scotland for focusing on its white hero as black corpses pile up around him. But although the movie takes place on an international political stage, it's still a drama of individual allegiance."

   - J.R. Jones, Chicago Reader

"Unlike Sean Penn's demagogue in"

   - Ruthe Stein, San Francisco Chronicle

"Jumping off from the brilliant novel by Giles Foden and changing a key character entirely, it dramatizes and wrings humor from the way a white Western renegade can view a self-made Third World despot like Amin as a superman blowing fresh air into a fetid atmosphere."

   - Michael Sragow, Baltimore Sun

"The film is phenomenally well directed by Kevin Macdonald and edited by Justine Wright to bring out every bit of scary volatility in the most casual interactions."

   - David Edelstein, New York Magazine

"Forest Whitaker, uncorking the power that he usually holds in check, gives a chilling, bravura performance as Ugandan tyrant Idi Amin, whose bloody regime slaughtered more than 300,000 people. This intelligent, sometimes gruesome thriller is based on a novel by Giles Foden."

   - David Ansen, Newsweek

Showtimes

• Friday, January 19th
  4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:45 pm
• Saturday, January 20th
  2:00 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:45 pm
• Sunday, January 21st
  2:00 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:15 pm
• Monday, January 22nd
  4:30 pm, 9:30 pm
• Tuesday, January 23rd
  7:00 pm, 9:30 pm
• Wednesday, January 24th
  7:15 pm, 9:45 pm
• Thursday, January 25th
  7:15 pm, 9:45 pm
• Friday, January 26th
  4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:45 pm
• Saturday, January 27th
  2:00 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:45 pm
• Sunday, January 28th
  2:00 pm, 4:30 pm, 7:00 pm
• Monday, January 29th
  4:30 pm, 7:00 pm, 9:30 pm
• Tuesday, January 30th
  7:00 pm, 9:30 pm
• Wednesday, January 31st
  7:00 pm, 9:30 pm